“I think if you had asked Jon Martin a week before who his best friend on the team was, he would have said Richie Incognito,”

Tannehill said to NBC Sports. “The first guy to stand up for Jonathan when anything went down on the field, any kind of tussle,

Richie was the first guy there. When we would hang on off the field, outside football, who was together? Richie and Jon. I’m not in those guys’ shoes, I can’t explain what’s going on.”

If this situation would have happened in the 1990s or earlier, the outcome might have been different.

A similar situation happened during the NFL off-season.

Philadelphia Eagles player Riley Cooper was at a concert and had a too much to drink. He was caught on camera getting into it with someone and excessively using the N-word in his trash talking.

Unlike Incognito, Cooper’s had very little support and a lot more hate in his direction.

Marcus Vick, brother of Eagle Michael Vick, tweeted a threat on Cooper after the incident: “Hey I’m putting bounty on Riley’s head. 1k to the first free safety or strong safety that light his (expletive) up! Wake him up please.”

Other teammates voiced opinions as well.

“…we’re merciful as a team toward Riley, toward his family, but at the same time we realize that it offended a whole bunch of people, me personally,” Jason Avant said to Comcast Sportsnet.

It’s odd that people will support someone who said the N-word, who wasn’t intoxicated, yet, are offended when someone is intoxicated.

Many believe the true you come out when you’re drinking.

That still doesn’t give anyone the right to say the N-word whether you are white, Black, Hispanic, intoxicated or sober.

The word was never supposed to be used as a way of being “cool” with one other.

It’s amazing that it takes a celebrity to get in trouble for saying the word for people to say something about it or have any opinion about it.